Tappan Zee Bridge; exit 13 for Palisades Interstate Parkway
North. Get off at the left exist for Lake Welch. Follow the signs
to Tiorati Circle. At Tiorati Circle take Seven Lakes Drive 2.5
miles south past the south end of Lake Tiorati and then pass Lake
Askoti on the right and turn right into the parking area by Lake
Shannatati.

PINE SWAMP MINE

The mine takes its name from the nearby wetland, Pine Swamp.
It is located in the area around the junction of the red-triangle
Arden-Surebridge Trail and the yellow-blazed Dunning Trail in
Harriman State Park. The mine is on the hillside located 900 feet
south of the intersection of the Dunning Trail and the Arden-Surebridge
Trail.

This mine was owned by Robert and Peter Parrott (also owners
of the Surebridge Mine). The ore went to the smelting furnaces at
Arden, NY. (Lenik 1996:102-105)

SUREBRIDGE MINE

Park at the parking area at lake Skannatati. Take the red-triangle
Arden-Surebridge Trail to the area known as Times Square. From
here walk north on the trail for 500 feet past where the blazed
trail turn left; stay on the old woods road (the Surebridge Mine
Road) north. Surebridge Swamp is on the left. The mine is on the
right at the northern end of Surebridge Swamp. There are a total
of eight mine openings in this area.

The mine was owned by Robert and Peter Parrott in the 19th
century, particularly during the Civil War. The ore went to the
Greenwood Furnace at Arden, New York for smelting. (Lenik 1996:105-107)

Trails:

I did not get very far on this trip as there was too much
botany to look at. But you can use Peggy Turco's book for a
longer walk. I walked on the Long Path (turquoise markers)
along the northern shore of Lake Skannatati. I did
make it to the intersection with the yellow trail. I found a
Phragmites australis (giant reed grass) marsh. I did find
the cotton grass here. Came across five wild turkey in a
group. I made it to the top of a hill and then just turned
back. There were quite a few trees down on top of the mountain.

9/18/01. Take the Arden-Surebridge Trail (A-SB). Head up the
steep Pine Swamp Mountain (with some rock slight climbing). Great
view southwest from here of Lake Skannatati and Lake Kanawauke.
Pass several old mine holes and then come to a really large mine
cut, both on the right side of the trail. Pass by the Dunning
Trail (Yellow Blazed). Reach Times Square where three trails meet
(A-SB, Ramapo-Dunderberg (R-D), and the Long Path). Continue on
the A-SB Trail. As the trail turns left, continue straight on the
Surebridge Mine Road. Here is Surebridge Swamp. The dominant
species seems to be highbush blueberry with some red maple.
Continuing on the A-SB Trail takes the hiker to the Lemon
Squeezer near Island Pond.

Returning, took the Dunning Trail (yellow blazed). Pass the
large Pine Swamp with lots of leatherleaf around the edges. On
the left are the remains of a large mine. Turn left onto the Long
Path (turqoise blazed); walk parallel to the edges of Lake
Skannatati. Return to the parking lot.

Surebridge Swamp, a high, cold, forested swamp, at an altitude
of about 1,000 feet, in the western part of the Harriman Section
of the Palisades Interstate Park, was visited on July 12. A new
station was found in the depths of the swamp, unusually
penetrable owing to dry weather, for the Virginia Chain fern,
Woodwardia virginica. The red fruited sorediate lichen, Cladonia
incrassata, not common in the Hudson Highlands, was rather
extensive here about bases of red maple trees. On the "Lichen
Trail," climbing the ledges of Hogencamp Mountain, the only
really ample station in the Hudson Highlands, of the Iceland Moss
lichen, Cetraria islandica, was noted, other lichens . . .